July 1, 2025
Digital imaging is poised to reduce chemical thinner usage in orchards. Long He, a Penn State ag engineering professor, demonstrated the technology June 25 at the university’s Fruit Research and Extension Center field day. Vivid Machines produced the specialized camera, which He mounted on a side-by-side to count the number of fruitlets on each tree.
June 26, 2025
How do you safely hold an outdoor event for 170-plus people in the midst of a heat wave — and without power? That was the question Kari Peter faced Monday night as she arrived at Penn State's Fruit Research and Extension Center to find the building dark. The research center’s biggest public event, held only every two or three years, was due to start Wednesday morning, and a fire at a nearby substation had just knocked out power to Peter's house, and to much of northern Adams County.
